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" Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not. "
Lydia Millet
Life
Delicate
Seek
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" I love irony. "
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" More than two million years ago, mammoths and Asian elephants took different evolutionary paths - and around the same time, according to DNA research, so did their lumbering relatives in Africa. "
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Research
Two
Africa
" Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that. "
Lydia Millet
Position
Not Interested
Cynical
" I used to try to write around the edges, but now I try to walk a more direct line. "
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Used
Try
Now
" When I was 16, I went to Berlin - West Berlin, since at that time a wall still divided the city - to live for three months with a family on an exchange program. "
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Three
Time
City
" I never seem to leave L.A., though I left L.A. "
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Left
Leave
Though
" In the 1970s, Safari Club International asked the federal government to approve its import of 1,125 not-yet-killed trophies of 40 endangered species, including gorillas, orangutans and tigers, according to the Humane Society of the United States. "
Lydia Millet
Club
United States
Society
" Most climate debates have focused on cutting the use of fossil fuels. But besides a few high-profile scuffles over fuel extraction in vulnerable wild places like the offshore Arctic, political leaders have ignored fossil fuel production as a necessary piece of climate strategy. "
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Strategy
Wild
Over
" I worry about the very pernicious way we elevate and separate ourselves from other beasts, the way we rationalize our comfort and ease, our worship of the self, as healthy. It's enticing, but with a terrible taint of evil. "
Lydia Millet
Worry
Way
Evil
" Trophy hunters are not Everyman. These world-traveling endangered-species shooters are a far cry from the hunters who spend weekends in the American outback near their suburban or rural homes. "
Lydia Millet
Cry
Weekends
Trophy
" Everyone desires to laugh sometimes, and I want to make that available. "
Lydia Millet
Sometimes
Want
Make
" Fiction should be an ethically safe space, free of fancy ideas. It should be dedicated modestly to relationships or escapism or the needs of luscious voyeurs. "
Lydia Millet
Safe
Space
Relationships
" I'm not calculating enough in the way I approach writing. "
Lydia Millet
Way
Enough
Approach
" Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language. "
Lydia Millet
Proper
Other
Names
" When 'Watchmen' was published in 1986, the vast majority of comics readers deemed it a watershed in comics history. The 12-part serial comic book was widely acclaimed as a genius subversion of the superhero genre, and it did much to popularize comics to adults. "
Lydia Millet
Superhero
Book
Genius
" Indeed, the hype around 'Watchmen' is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn't high culture, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in. "
Lydia Millet
Culture
Want
You
" Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fiction, and I don't think it's that rich a vein. "
Lydia Millet
Think
Rich
Realism
" I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people. "
Lydia Millet
People
Insane
Always
" No one bought my screenplays. "
Lydia Millet
Bought
Screenplays
" I don't write the same book twice. "
Lydia Millet
Write
Book
Twice
" Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that. "
Lydia Millet
Like
Culture
Ideal
" Without even knowing why, we believe that to learn how to be human - which we have many years to do, for human beings have longer childhoods than any other species, a feature that to biologists and philosophers alike is one of our race's distinguishing characteristics - children must be surrounded by animal imagery. "
Lydia Millet
Children
Animal
Believe
" I have a king bed, one of those memory-foam mattresses that doesn't jiggle as you get in or out. Even if you cleaved it down the middle with a pickax, the thing wouldn't tremble. It's practically earthquake-proof. "
Lydia Millet
You
Out
King
" There has to be space for play in literature. We all need some breathing room. "
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Literature
Space
Play
" Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature? "
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Extinction
Register
Our
" I think that young readers have very strong stomachs. "
Lydia Millet
I Think
Think
Strong
" Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this. "
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Children
Art
Parents
" Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over wilderness areas and blocking wildlife corridors in America's most treasured landscapes. "
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Wildlife
Wilderness
Creating
" Most of my books have something to do with L.A. "
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Most
Books
Something
" If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily. "
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Find
Love
Opposite